Men’s Swimming & Diving Defeated by Columbia, 163-137

Saturday, January 19

New York, NY

12:00 PM

Brown University

Columbia

Men’s Swimming & Diving Defeated by Columbia, 163-137

1/19/2019 4:30:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

Results

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Brown men's swimming & diving team was defeated by Columbia, 163-137, in an Ivy League meet on Saturday at Percy Uris Natatorium. Junior Joon Sung (Los Angeles, Calif.) highlighted the Bears' performances with two individual victories and a relay win.

"The men did a solid job in our dual meet today against Columbia," said head coach Chris Ip. "After the first few events, we saw the team adapt and refocus to take some important individual event victories. New swimmers stepped up for Bruno as the team started to show its depth. We look forward to hosting our Ivy League rivals Cornell next week for our senior meet and regular season finale."

Brown began the meet taking second in the 200 medley relay, with the fastest dual meet time of the season (1:30.27). The relay consisted of Sung, sophomore Max Pokutta (Palo Alto, Calif.), senior Nicholas Brown (Sudbury, Mass.) and junior Alex Smilenov (Katy, Texas).

Junior William McNelis (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) and freshman Trevor Labuda (Los Altos, Calif.) took third and fourth, respectively, on both boards.

Sophomore Michael Lincoln (Palo Alto, Calif.) took second in the 200 freestyle (1:40.60), followed by freshman Lucas Hess (Salt Lake City, Utah) in fourth place (1:43.04). Lincoln also went on to place third in the 500 freestyle (4:41.26) with Hess again following in fourth (4:45.16).

Junior Coley Sullivan (Louisville, Ky.) (50.72) and N. Brown (50.87) led the way for the Bears in the 100 backstroke, taking second and third, respectively. N. Brown would later win the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:48.80, with Sullivan following him in second (1:50.91) and freshman Reid Arwood (Asheville, N.C.) scoring fifth (1:52.54).

In the 100 breaststroke, Pokutta took the win in 57.80, with senior Carson Christuk (Newbury, Mass.) touching third (58.62). Pokutta would go on to place second in the 200 breaststroke (2:05.54), slightly ahead of freshman Ben Hayes (River Hills, Wis.)
who placed third (2:06.59).

Sung won both butterfly events for the Bears, with season-best times in both events, with a 48.87 in the 100 and a 1:48.65 in the 200. Hayes took second in the 200 butterfly behind Sung (1:51.08) and freshman I.I. Qiao (Naperville, Ill.) placed third behind Sung in the 100 (50.28).

In the sprints, it was junior Cody Cline (Wellington, Fla.) touching third in the 50 freestyle (20.80) and second in the 100 (45.39). Smilenov took fourth in the 50 (21.07) while junior Jagger Stephens (Agana Heights, Hagatna, Guam) took fourth in the 100 (46.26) behind Cline.

The Bears ended the meet with two big wins as sophomore Alex Park (Dix Hills, N.Y.) won the 200 IM with a season best time of 1:52.69, followed by Hayes in third (1:53.44). Shortly after, the Bears took the 400 freestyle relay in 3:02.34 with the team of Cline, Sullivan, Sung and Smilenov, and were able to hold Columbia off to also take second in the event with Stephens, Brown, Hess, and Lincoln (3:05.71).

The Bears next return home to Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center to host Cornell on Saturday, Jan. 26 at noon for Senior Day.